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Anton Graff
1736-1813
Swiss painter, active in Germany. He was a pupil of Johann Ulrich Schellenburg (1709-95) in Winterthur and continued his training with Johann Jakob Haid in Augsburg between 1756 and 1765. He worked for the court painter Leonhard Schneider (1716-62) in Ansbach from 1757 to 1759, producing large numbers of copies of a portrait of Frederick the Great (probably by Antoine Pesne). This was an important step in furthering his career, as were the months he spent in Regensburg (1764-5) painting miniatures of clerics and town councillors. He was court painter to the Elector Frederick-Christian of Saxe-Weimar in Dresden from 1766 and taught at the Hochschule der Bildende K?nste there. In 1771 he travelled to Berlin, where he painted portraits of Jakob Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and J. G. Sulzer. Sulzer introduced him at court, which resulted in many commissions. He was invited several times to teach at the Akademie der K?nste in Berlin, but he remained in Dresden. He often travelled to Leipzig, and in summer he frequently went to Teplitz (now Teplice, Czech Republic) and Karlsbad
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Painting ID:: 75653
Portrait of Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark
1791
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Painting ID:: 76750
Self-portrait
1794(1794)
Oil on canvas
168 ?? 105.5 cm (66.1 ?? 41.5 in)
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Painting ID:: 76862
Self-Portrait at the Age of 58
1794(1794)
Oil on canvas
105 cm (41.3 in). Height: 168 cm (66.1 in).
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Painting ID:: 76942
Friedrich August I.
1795(1795)
Oil on canvas
226 ?? 137 cm (89 ?? 53.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 77366
Portrat des Erbprinzen Heinrich XIII
ca. 1780(1780)
Oil on canvas
113 ?? 84 cm (44.5 ?? 33.1 in)
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Anton Graff
1736-1813
Swiss painter, active in Germany. He was a pupil of Johann Ulrich Schellenburg (1709-95) in Winterthur and continued his training with Johann Jakob Haid in Augsburg between 1756 and 1765. He worked for the court painter Leonhard Schneider (1716-62) in Ansbach from 1757 to 1759, producing large numbers of copies of a portrait of Frederick the Great (probably by Antoine Pesne). This was an important step in furthering his career, as were the months he spent in Regensburg (1764-5) painting miniatures of clerics and town councillors. He was court painter to the Elector Frederick-Christian of Saxe-Weimar in Dresden from 1766 and taught at the Hochschule der Bildende K?nste there. In 1771 he travelled to Berlin, where he painted portraits of Jakob Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and J. G. Sulzer. Sulzer introduced him at court, which resulted in many commissions. He was invited several times to teach at the Akademie der K?nste in Berlin, but he remained in Dresden. He often travelled to Leipzig, and in summer he frequently went to Teplitz (now Teplice, Czech Republic) and Karlsbad
. Related Artists to Anton Graff: | Michelangelo Buonarroti | Luke Fildes | Oscar Bluemner | Eastman Johnson | Jakub Schikaneder |
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